Legal Opinion

Rogers v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided December 13, 2007No. 20A04-0707-CR-397PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HOFFMAN, Senior Judge.

Appellant-Defendant Steven Rogers appeals his sentence imposed following a re-sentencing hearing on his guilty plea to murder. We affirm.

Rogers raises two issues, which we restate as:

I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion when resentencing Rogers; and

II. Whether Rogers’s sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of his offense and his character.

In March 1995, Rogers and Michael Nolte got into a fight with Bradford Woo-dall, and they punched and kicked Woodall in the head, causing him to die of a blunt force trauma to the head. See Rogers v. State,…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Blakely v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Childress v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2006
  3. Hicks v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1997
  4. Cotto v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2005
  5. Mitchem v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1997

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3Cited by53 opinions

  1. Steinberg v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 2011
  2. Jim A. Edsall v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2013
  3. Adam Morris v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2013
  4. Ashonta Kenya Jackson v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2015
  5. Amanda L. Zeigler v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)Indiana Court of Appeals · 2018

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